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...CIO President John McSweeney stood with Clinton during the Democratic Convention, symbolizing their partnership, which Clinton solidified witha minimum wage hike and additional tax credits for the working poor...
...outraged that the AFL-CIO has the audacity to compare its selfish and destructive union-organizing campaign with the civil rights "Freedom Summer" of 1964 [BUSINESS, July 15]. Labor unions are a dinosaur. In the first part of the century they were a necessary evil, but they are no longer needed. The AFL-CIO should accept the fact that it is an anachronism and drift quietly into obscurity. Unions, while preaching the altruistic intent of helping the low-skilled worker, actually cause fewer jobs suitable for such workers to be created. ELIJAH C. MARENTETTE Boston
...jobs. According to the AFL-CIO, more than 500,000 U.S. industrial workers last year had their jobs exported to China. A study by the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington predicts that over the next four years, 250,000 more jobs in the aerospace industry alone will be lost to China. That's why Clay and others wonder if their futures will be sacrificed so that Boeing and companies like it, lured by the potential of 1.2 billion people, can boost their share of the China market. Laments Clay: "Companies in this country are sending manufacturing of just about...
...pumped up," said Campos as she returned to the hotel to join a noisy picket line. "I feel ready to take on the world. I'm finally doing something instead of just talking." What Campos and more than 1,000 participants have done is sign on to the AFL-CIO's "Union Summer," a program designed to attract campus and community activists and channel their thirst for social justice into the long-moribund labor movement. Modeling itself on "Freedom Summer," the 1964 effort by 1,000 college students to register blacks in Mississippi, Union Summer hopes to galvanize a generation...
...rule. Genuinely undecided voters are often so taken with a break from partisanship that they pay such dissidents special attention. When the New York Herald Tribune, which had helped found the modern G.O.P., picked L.B.J. in 1964, it was a stunning symbol of moderate-liberal disaffection. When AFL-CIO President George Meany refused to back George McGovern in 1972, it signaled the disaffection of blue-collar Democrats. In 1980 I became convinced that Reagan would win big--not by the polls, which were then showing a close race, but by Reagan endorsements from onetime antiwar Senator Eugene McCarthy and from...